CloudGenix CEO Kumar Ramachandran sounds off on Cisco, Riverbed and other SD-WAN competitors and while touting his company's new 'iWANT CloudGenix Challenge' roadshow, which targets Cisco partners and customers.

TierPoint is broadening its data center strategy with a recently completed expansion completed and brand new facility being planned. The focus on its data center business will help partners sell more colocation, disaster recovery, and IT security services, TierPoint says.

CenturyLink and data management and analytics provider Cloudera are jointly developing a cloud-based big data solution that will help partners and their business customers get the most value from their data, especially as trends like IoT take hold.